Lord Tywin Lannister is dead, murdered by his son Tyrion in his flight from the city. King Tommen Baratheon, Joffrey's eight-year-old brother, now rules in King's Landing under the watchful eye of his mother, the Queen Regent Cersei Lannister. King Stannis Baratheon has fled to the Wall, where Jon Snow has become Lord Commander. Robb Stark, Joffrey Baratheon, Renly Baratheon, and Balon Greyjoy are dead. The War of the Five Kings seems to be winding down. The remaining characters return in A Dance with Dragons, the fifth book.Ī Feast for Crows picks up the tale where A Storm of Swords leaves off and runs simultaneously with events in the following novel, A Dance with Dragons.

A Feast for Crows was also the first novel in the sequence to debut at the top of the New York Times bestseller list, a feat among fantasy writers only previously achieved by David Eddings, Robert Jordan and Neil Gaiman.ĭue to complexities that arose during the writing process, A Feast for Crows only includes some of the POV characters from the past novels, as well as some new characters who appear only briefly. Like its predecessor A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel, one of the two most prestigious awards in science fiction and fantasy publishing, although it lost out the 2006 ballot to Robert Charles Wilson's Spin. Another chapbook featuring three Daenerys Targaryen chapters was published for BookExpo 2005, although these chapters were subsequently moved into the fifth volume, A Dance with Dragons.

Arms of the Kraken was published in the August 2002 edition of Dragon Magazine. Its publication was preceded by a novella named Arms of the Kraken, which collected the first four Iron Islands chapters together. The novel was first published on Octoin the United Kingdom, with a United States edition following on Novemhowever, it appeared ahead of the publication date in several UK bookshops. ISBN 0-3 (US Hardback), ISBN 0-00-224743-7 (UK Hardback), ISBN 2-X (US Paperback)Ī Feast for Crows is the fourth of seven planned novels in A Song of Ice and Fire, an epic fantasy series by American author George R.

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